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He had a habit of saying things, as they express it in that country, between his teeth. That signifies what is animal-like and cruel. Galbraith stood silent during Pierre's remarks, but, when he had finished, said: "Yes, it's all right if he doesn't sleep too long; but there's the trouble too long!"
But if we look at the matter from a wider biological standpoint of development, our conclusion must be very different. So far from being animal-like, the human impulses of sex are among the least animal-like acquisitions of man. The human sphere of sex differs from the animal sphere of sex to a singularly great extent.
The soldier went mechanically, dully, with his animal-like eyes upon the officer. Perhaps there was to him a divinity expressed in the voice of the other stern, hard, with no reflection of fear in it. He tried to reload his gun, but his shaking hands prevented. The lieutenant was obliged to assist him. The men dropped here and there like bundles.
This is in line with the fact that many cultivated men and women find that education has given unattained ideals and unsatisfied ambitions and strenuous life and disappointments, but it is rare that they long for the care-free and animal-like happiness of the tropical savage.
For the space of a dozen heartbeats she lay with her mouth open, breathless in the deathly silence of the frozen night. A scream! It must have reached the sky. Piercing, agonized the agony of a man screaming with his mouth wide open screaming without restraint, in animal-like unconsciousness of what he was doing. "Jap!" She clutched his arm and shook him.
"They have always been hanging about, uncle, till we had done our meals, and then waited for what was left." "Yes. True. I saw them paddle across last night in the dark and fetch what was put for them, in a curious animal-like way." "But you didn't see them go back, uncle?"
When the wrapping came away a shattered finger came with it it had rotted off, if you care to know that detail and at the sight the victim uttered growling, rasping, animal-like sounds. Even so, I think it was the thing he saw more than the pain of it that overcame him; the pain he could have borne. He had been bearing it for days.
Then he only said he was sorry he couldn't have the pleasure of my friendship " "Ay-ee," the other grated. His lips worked above his teeth. A shudder passed over Janet Hosmer's skin at the sound and the sight, for she had never seen him like this. A cold hand might have been closing about her heart: his glare was animal-like and bestial. His nature at the instant stood unclothed.
The horror of all the realities he had foreseen appeared to him for a second with such acuteness that he struggled an instant or so against an animal-like desire to fling himself on Farandal. He arose. "I am tired," said he. "I am going to the massage now." An Arab was passing. "Ahmed, are you at liberty?" "Yes, Monsieur Bertin."
"We'll be sent off this satellite so fast," answered Tom, "you'll get sick from acceleration." "Why?" asked Astro. "Vidac won't want us hanging around. Not since Captain Strong is here. He'll give us a trial within an hour, sentence us to life on a prison rock, and delegate some of his boys to take us back. We don't have a chance." Astro let out a low animal-like growl.
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